Jenny Karezi
Evgenia Karpouzi was born in Athens, Greece, to a mathematician father and high school teacher mother. She studied under the direction of the Sisters of St. Joseph at a private French school in Thessaloniki, and later by the same Order in Athens. She learned French fluently. When she was a teenager, her father left the family and she continued to live with her mother. Her father died in a car accident in 1971. In 1951 she was accepted at the Greek National Theater, where she studied in the Drama School. The playwright Angelos Terzakis and the director Dimitris Rontiris were among her teachers. Upon graduation, in 1954, she was immediately thrust into starring roles in the theatre, playing alongside actors such as Alexis Minotis and Katina Paxinou.
Known For
Credits
- 2021 · 1821 at the Cinema as (archive footage)
- 1972 · Lysistrata as Lysistrati
- 1972 · Erotic Symphony as Eirini / Betty Stergiou
- 1971 · Manto Mavrogenous as Manto Mavrogenous
- 1970 · A Woman in the Resistance as Άννα Κολέτη
- 1968 · A Knight for Vasoula as Vasoula Liontou
- 1968 · Love and Blood as Foni Yeraka
- 1967 · Concert for Machine Guns as Niki
- 1967 · He And She as
- 1966 · A Bullet Through the Heart as Carla
- 1966 · Jenny Jenny as Jenny Skoutari
- 1965 · A Crazy Family as Mika
- 1964 · Miss Manager as Lila Vasileiou
- 1964 · A Great Love as Lena
- 1964 · Lola as Λόλα
- 1963 · The Red Lanterns as Eleni Niculescu
- 1962 · Runaway Bride as Kaiti Alexopoulou
- 1962 · Betrayed love as Anna
- 1962 · Athens by Night as
- 1961 · Who Is Margarita? as Margarita Kondostavrou
- 1960 · Snow White and the 7 Old Boys as Alexia
- 1960 · The Young Lady's Fool as Julia Karali
- 1960 · Date in Corfu as Diana Laniti / Mirka
- 1960 · The Island of the Brave as Dona
- 1960 · Christina as Hristina
- 1959 · Wrecks Of Life as
- 1959 · Taxeidi me ton erota as Gianna
- 1958 · One Street Organ, One Life as Nina
- 1958 · She's a Lunatic as Jenny
- 1957 · The Auntie from Chicago as Katina Barda
- 1957 · The Lagoon of Desire as Miranda
- 1957 · Laterna, Poverty and Carnation as Καίτη
- 1957 · Trouble for Fathers as Μπίλλυ Μαυρογιάννη
- 1955 · The Hurdy-Gurdy as Kaiti